Just in time for Rash Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, comes Old Jews Telling Jokes, a book based on Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman's widely popular—and outlandishly funny—website of the same name. In 2009, Hoffman and Spiegelman gathered Hoffman's father and some of his over-60 friends in an abandoned New Jersey storefront and taped them telling some of the best jokes to be passed between Jewish jokesters since the shtetl, and then put them online.

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Since then, Old Jews Telling Jokes, has become an Internet phenomenon with new videos up each week. And now it's on sale in good old fashioned paperback, featuring "mothers, father, bubbies, and zaydes" telling everything from knock-knock jokes to bawdy shock comedy—the dirtiest coming from the most nice, unassuming Jewish wives and ma's you've ever seen. So tonight, while she slaves—slaves—over your new year's brisket, take a break to tell some jokes.